Bøker av Teresa A. Meade

This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States, became an activist for other refugees, earning renown in the Bay Area as "the oldest refugee" of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant.

The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, made life worse for the majority of the city's residents. Their resistance to the changes is the focus of this study, tracing the rebellion that continued for more than 20 years after the renovation ended in 1909.